Newfound Gap
/June 21, 2015 I hiked Charlies Bunion. Stopped just below Newfound Gap to take this picture through the valley.
June 21, 2015 I hiked Charlies Bunion. Stopped just below Newfound Gap to take this picture through the valley.
May 30, 2015 I hiked Abrams Falls Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This is a short hike from the Cades Cove loop that ends in a nice waterfall.
In 2015 I ran the Knoxville Half Marathon in under 2 hours! My chip time was 1:59:20 for a 9:06 pace.
Photos are added here and to deviantart. I like photos of textures, patterns, and details.
After reading /u/ciscomd's comment on reddit, I take fewer photos without people. /u/ciscomd said,"One time I found this old home movie my grandma made of their visit to the Grand Canyon back in the 50s. She's filming the scenery and a couple times you can barely see my dad and uncles run by. We're watching this in the mid '00s - 50 years later, near the end of her life. She goes "Why didn't I point the camera at them? I don't care about the Grand Canyon." That's when I quit taking pictures without people in them."
Today my family and I hiked a few of the trails on Buffalo Mountain. We hiked to White Rock (3,100 feet) along the White Rock Loop and then to Huckleberry Knob (2,500 feet). The total hike was 4.2 miles. White Rock has great views over Elizabethton and Huckleberry Knob has views over Johnson City. We could see our house!
Today my family and I ran the Turkey Trot 5k. It was a cold race in the 30s with snow. I came in 227 place out of 2402 runners with a total time of 24:24 and a pace of 07:52.
I finished the 2014 Nashville marathon in 5 hours and 12 minutes with my friend Guin Shaw. What a lot of running. My average pace was 11:50 minutes per mile, a little slow but I just wanted to make it. I finished 7th in my age group, 106th male, and 212 overall. The race ended with a half mile of downhill toward the river on Broadway, the strip of country music bars and neon signs. It was such a rush to see the finish line and all my friends cheering. Thank you Guin for pushing me to keep running and not letting me walk.
I ran my first half-marathon in 2014! I am very happy with my time of 2:04:51 (9:32 per mile)
For Christmas I got a new camera! I had been using a Sony DSC-W370 point-and-shoot, but now I have a Sony NEX-3N mirrorless DSLR. My brother, dad, and I hiked to Jane Bald to try it out. It is a short hike, 3 miles round trip with 308 feet of climbing.
Today my family and I ran the Turkey Trot 5k. I ran at my baseline pace of 9:45 minutes/mile.